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How to spell moon

What it means: The large round object that orbits Earth and shines at night.

In a sentence: The moon shines brightly in the night sky. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as moone or moom.

Same family: Unification Church, religious leader, founder, tax evasion, new religious movement. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The surname Moon, when used for this religious leader, is the common Romanization of the Korean family name 문. It is unrelated to the English word for the Earth’s natural satellite, although in English they look and sound the same.

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